Tuesday, 3 October 2017

Magazines and Anthologies 2017

I'm delighted to have had poems in the following magazines and anthologies - big thanks to all the editors! Some recommendations of my poetry and reviews at the end of the blog. Blimey! Just looked, my first poems were published in 2002 by Envoi, ed. Roger Elkin

Poems have appeared in a variety of anthologies
and magazines in the UK, Italy and North America, including: Orbis, Tears in
the Fence, Obsessed with Pipework, Rain Dog, Envoi, Smoke, Southlight, Seventh
Quarry, Poetry Cornwall, Citizen 32, Diamond Twig, And Other Poets, The Poetry Shed, Mediterranean Poetry, InterlitQ, Jacket2, Cumbria magazine, The Dalesman, Zaum, Cezanne's Carrot and more!

UK anthologies:

Sculpted – Poetry of the North West; Running
Before The Wind and The Price of Gold, Greyhen Press; On a Bat’s Wing (Five Leaves Press), Simply Connect (Cinnamon Press), Not a Drop – Just Oceans of Poetry; My Dear Watson – The Very Elements
in Poetry; Heavenly Bodies – a constellation of poetry Beautiful Dragons Press; The Raspberry and the Rowan (Cumbria
Wildlife Trust); The Other Side of Sleep,
Arachne Press; Live from Worktown
2014; The Cockermouth Poets, River Press Cockermouth; Watershed, Harestone Press; Both
Sides of Hadrian’s Wall, Selkirk Lapwing Press; Advice on Proposals (Jane Austen), The Scratching of Pens (Brontes) Like
This Press; The Land Songs with Joan Poulson, Geraldine Green and Charles Johnson (Flarestack)

The
Skin … there’s a freshness about her work that
brought tears to my eyes. Real tears, like a child’s.” – Anne Stevenson,
Mslexia OctNovDec 2003

Geraldine Green’s passion
for and knowledge of the natural world and its spiritual energies
has its roots and takes its cue from home ground, her
native Cumbria. She has noted her ‘long and
deep connection’ with Cumbria. She draws inspiration from light
over water, tidal energy, the intent of the land combined with
rich tellings of family and local memory. But her
poems and prose-poems also travel the roads and
the seas: from Cumbria to Kansas, New Mexico, Spain,
Greece, New York, Skye and Turkey.

This poet takes her place
in contemporary poetry with work that shines with joy in and
respect for language. The vitality of life’s many
experiences are evoked here with all the senses. - Penelope
Shuttle

"Geraldine Green’s poems
are alert to landscape, seasons, rootedness that draws from deep aquifers of
language, change that flits like cloud shadows across the page. Some seemed
light as thistle heads but proved enduringly strong, rich with seed. As I read,
I almost expected goldfinches to feed alongside me with their otherworldly
attentiveness. But that attentiveness was all hers." - Graham Mort

“Passio is a high-wire act where
risk, desire and accomplishment create poems of precarious and touching beauty.
There is a mythic quality to much of the work here; each poem a mantra of what
is possible if we’re prepared to become – and remain – astonished by our
lives.” – Professor Graham Mort

“Her personal travails find quiet relief in the
memories of her pilgrimage and travel, which in turn generously spice her
poems. She conveys memories so naturally, whether imagined, evolutionary, or
conscious. The past is always present through language and memory. They don’t
exist without each other.” – Mary Jo Malo – Unlikely Stories

“Geraldine Green has to invent her own language
to express her wonder and pity for the wasted world and its oiled words” –
Giles Darvill, Reviewer, SOUTH Magazine

“And with both exuberance and sadness, on
an uncharted adventure and uncertain in a backwater, and with a language that’s
new-found, new-made for what is needed.” – David Hart, Freelance Writer/Poet

“Geraldine writes like no-one else, with a
visionary imagination that seems in a direct line from Blake and the English
Romantics.” – Charles Johnson, Poet, Editor, Obsessed with Pipework

“Her infectious enthusiasm informs a created
world which integrates the vocabulary of her locality with the universality of
transcendent vision” – George Wallace NY Poet

“The Beloit Poetry,
one of America’s most venerable, famously reads submissions aloud. If they read
Geraldine Green’s poems aloud they will think inevitably of e e cummings’
regard for punctuation as impediment. Her very first poem, “Me and Janine,” is
full of information and yet it tells its story—sings it—without punctuation
simply because Green’s mind possesses unerring musicality. She thinks musically
whereas some poets translate their thoughts into music. The difference shows up
again and again in this remarkable, stylistically diverse manuscript, The
Other Side of the Bridge.” – Djelloul Marbrook blogs at www.djelloulmarbrook.com

“These
are poems of vivid and compelling energy. Nature is a living presence
throughout these poems, which are spontaneous, alert, and rich in
transformations. Landscape is this poet’s muse, be it her native Cumbria
or Long Island or the Mid West. Memory is also a rich seam for this
poet.” – Review of The Other Side of the Bridge Penelope Shuttle

“Geraldine Green’s THE OTHER SIDE OF THE BRIDGE
delights with poems that travel from the Lake District to Greece to a Sac and
Fox powwow in Oklahoma. Green’s voice is fresh and full of verve.
Her sharp sense of place is presented in a fusion of past and present.
Her unique music and ability to capture personality through her characters’
chatter enlivens her work. She sees the world as lush and does not skimp
in invoking its magic, mystery and myths. Readers can never be sure where
her words will carry them, even from the beginning of a phrase to the end of
it. The surprises may startle, but each leap of imagination and language
quickly seems perfectly apt. This is a volume to be read and re-read.” –
Carol Hamilton, former Poet Laureate, Oklahoma

“These are poems brimming with deep generosity.
Although a faithful chronicler of Northern life, she holds out her arms to
people across the world. She is a listener, a storyteller, working carefully
with language to find the colours of reality. She is concerned with humanity,
showing tenderness and curiosity in intimate writing revelling in the joys of
love, or in poems where she stands as a witness to other times, other places,
unafraid of the dark. Giving voice to those who often go unheard, she widens
our knowledge and engages our imagination.” – Rose Flint

“In this collection we have 35 poems that reach into the
heart of the poet’s life.They encompass
not only a religious sensitivity and awareness of the flaws in God’s creations,
but an empathy with the realities of the natural world."

Dr.John Ballam – New British
Poetry 7, The Skin by Geraldine Green (Flarestack)

“[her work] is wordy,
yet it sings, it is, in a way, both lyrical and prosy.More importantly it is full of wondering,
without ever becoming arch, and it is surreal, without ever loosening its
uncertainties.I liked the
freely-ranging imagination of ‘And the Angel plucked at her clavichord’ which,
in some ways reminiscent of D.H. Lawrence shifts both the focus and the tone
from internal to external, subject to object with none ever far from scrutiny.”

About Me

Introduction Dr.
Geraldine Green born in Cumbria, travels widely, enjoys giving poetry
readings and has recently returned from a poetry reading trip with her husband
Geoff to the North American Mid West.